Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking for the causes of "coronaries," medical men point accusing fingers at heredity, high-fat diets, emotional strain. Last week the American Psychosomatic Society met in Manhattan, heard a panel of experts examine the kinds of personalities most prone to heart attacks, re-emphasize the dangers of stress. Even the "lethalness of a high-fat diet in our society," noted Dr. Henry I. Russek, consultant in cardiovascular research for the U.S. Public Health Service, "seems to be dependent on the 'catalytic influence' of stressful living...
...body with fuel for extraordinary effort. Because the stress-prone individual is constantly striving and constantly frustrated, his body reacts as though he were constantly carrying a burden." The rise in blood cholesterol and lipides (fatty molecules) may increase the danger of thrombosis, particularly when other factors (heredity, diet) are already present...
Otto and Mary Krai, who live on a farm near Hastings, Minn., have one main goal in life: they want to educate their son. So last year they took seven-year-old Tommy out of Lakeland-Afton public school after watching him vegetate on a soda-pop diet of "life-adjustment" courses. Mary Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition...
Evolution v. Revolution. Next day the President flew to Atlantic City to address the American Medical Association, warned the medical profession against contributing to inflation with bloated fees (see MEDICINE), gave a medical twist to his pleas for a balanced budget: "Habitual violation of a balanced diet can lead to ruined health; deliberately to unbalance the federal budget in time of huge indebtedness and rapidly increasing prosperity can bring about an enfeebled economy...
...temples scattered throughout Japan. Claiming a membership of 1,100,000 families, the current sect leader, Takashi Koizumi, 52, explains that the move into politics is "simply insurance. Several years ago we began getting official interference, and that was when we decided we must have our representatives in the Diet." As a happy afterthought, Koizumi adds: "Besides, having men who believe in Nichiren's teachings in the Diet will influence the ugly character of politics and make it clean and pure...